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Is a driver for FedEx Express part of an airline that should be regulated by a federal law that governs railroads and airlines, or is he a trucking company driver who should fall under regulations that cover such companies?
Albuquerque,NM,USA -The New Mexico Business Weekly, by Dennis Domrzalski -Oct 30, 2009: -- That’s the issue that the nation’s two largest shipping companies – FedEx Corp. and UPS – debated in Albuquerque this past week... UPS spokesman, Malcolm Berkley, said there’s no evidence that FedEx’s 100,000+ employees, who are already regulated under the NLRA, have unionized or want to. He added that FedEx Express is using the threat of potential work stoppages at UPS as a way to steal customers and said that UPS hasn’t had a strike since 1997... “The issue is equal treatment under the law,” Berkley said. “The equal treatment of drivers”... He added that UPS thinks it’s ridiculous that FedEx Express drivers are considered airline workers... The language to put FedEx Express’ drivers under the NLRA is contained in the House version of the FAA reauthorization act. The Senate version does not have the language... FedEx spokesman, Maury, said that about 4,500 to 5,000 of FedEx Express’ pilots and mechanics who fall under the Railway Labor Act are unionized. The rest of the company’s 140,000 employees are not... Berkley said nearly 80 percent of UPS’s 350,000 employees are unionized... Complicating the issue is that FedEx Corp. has four divisions: FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight and FedEx Office. Only FedEx Express is covered by the Railway Labor Act...Labels: debate
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Utah,USA -Land Line Magazine -26 Feb 2007: -- A bill has stalled in the Utah Legislature that was intended to prevent law enforcement officers from going on ticket-writing sprees... “I was with (my) daughter and we got pulled over. I asked the officer if he’s under a quota system. He said they really don’t call it a quota system, it’s more of a performance-based evaluation system,” Rep. Neil Hansen, D-Ogden said at a recent hearing on the bill in the House... As part of that system, the officer told him, he’s required to write eight tickets a day... Supporters of the measure said there’s a difference between telling officers to write a certain number of tickets and telling them to write all the infractions they see... Hansen said that if chiefs have officers who refuse to write tickets, the problem is with the officers who refuse to enforce the laws – not the lack of a ticket quota.
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Frostburg,Maryland,USA -The Cumberland Times-news, by R. Steele Selby -Feb 12, 2007: -- ... These are all serious indictments against the auto and its sidekick, the interstate. However there are a number of even more damaging charges to bring. A sampling of items from this category would include carbon dioxide emissions, dependence on foreign oil, urban sprawl, "bedroom communities," destruction of the natural environment, and creating an unsustainable economic burden. Over the past 50 years of its history the government (which is of course us) has spent more than a trillion dollars on the interstate. It now lacks the money to even keep up with all the necessary repairs, and has no way to fund expansions to meet the exponential growth of cars, trucks and miles driven. People find themselves increasingly using more of their valuable time simply sitting on traffic-congested highways... The auto addiction is especially prevalent within families where there are now more vehicles to drive than licensed drivers. In some family budgets the total transportation cost is actually larger than any other item... At times I like very much to play the game "What if?" What if, instead of investing in a big road system, Ike and Congress had decided to pour billions of dollars into retooling and enhancing the already existing rail network? Better still, what if today the U.S. had no interstate system, but instead had a modern state-of-the-art railway system which connected all parts of the country? In my view, if this were the case, the above negatives would disappear, and the benefits of such an arrangement would be simply too awesome to imagine!...
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